A Florida Cyclone

A TEMPEST'S FUKY. Jackhoxville, Fia., Sept. 34. - A tornado of great violence passed over Pablo beach, eixteen miles frosi here on the Atlantic coast. at G o'clock Monday nisht. It arose in the soutilweHt, and, without any wmrnlng except the blackcnin? of the sky, it etruck Murray Hall, an immense beac'a hotol, twisted the tin roof trom the main struoture and towers, burst in the windows and doors on the twest sids and lcft it in a generally ihattered condition. The bowling-alley, ervants' quarters and carpenter-shop west of the hotel are completely demolished, as is also the greater portion of the beach pavilion. Prince O'Nell, aged 13, was standing by a horse and buggy near the dancing pavilion. The horsj, vehicle and boy were lifted into the air and blown nearly 200 feet to the beach, where they were found ten minutes later, all in a heap. The boy was killed outright, the body being terribly bruised and mangled. A freight car on a side track was lifted in the air, turned over twice and landed on the north side of the main track Bixty feet distant. A passenger train due at 6 o'clock was half an hour late owing to obstructions on the track. Had it arrived on time a hundred cottagers returning from the city would doubtless have been killed or sericusly injured. The force of the wind was such that pieces of timber were driven through the two-inch plank flooring of the railroad station, and were with great difticulty extricated lor tBe passage of the train. The cottagers escaped with little or no damage, and no eeiious injury to persons is reported beyondthe death of the O'Neill boy. The dainage to Murray Hall and surroundlngs is roughly estimated at f10,000. It closed for the season last Wednesday. Telegraph wires are down and all communication is out off. Ten minutes before the torna 1 o ewept over the place the operator in the office at Murray Hall was warned by wire froin Jacksonville of a cloud-burst in this city, and at that very moment an electric charge on the wire burned a gash in the operator's hand. Great excitement exists even now among the cottages, but perfect calin in the weather prevails. The tornado covered an area of not over seventy-five feet in its revolutions. People and buildings outside of this oircle were uninjured. It passed off toward the northwest, and was lesa than three minutes in duration. Aside from the demolished roof and broken glass Murray Hall stood the attack of the tornado remarkably we IL Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 24.- Rain began to fall here before dawn Monday and continued without cessation all day, the air at times being almost white with sheets of rain, much resembling a snow-squalL During the afternoon the storm was accompanied with sharp electrical shocks of an intensity never before experienced in this part of the State. In the evening a cloud burüt over the city. The waterfall from dawn to 5:30 p. m. was four and onequarter inches.